Tuesday, September 27, 2005
I have written a fair bit about the trials and tribulations of Ward Churchill. It's a pretty interesting case given the impact it has on issues of race, colonialism, intellectual copyright, intellectual freedoms etc. It also has a Halifax connection given that one of the academics that Churchill allegedly plagiarized from is Dalhousie University professor, Fay Cohen.
DissidentVoice.org is running a five part interview with Churchill. The first two sections are here andhere. Churchill tackles questions about his genealogy, Fay Cohen, and his comparison of World Trade Centre workers to Adolf Eichmann.
I still do not understand why media in Halifax hasn't cover the story other than running a cursory wire story.
Churchill co-authored the excellent The Cointelpro Papers : Documents From the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States. Earlier this month, Churchill spoke alongside Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur, at the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Briantrusts. The two sessions were part of the annual Congressional Black Caucus Convention in Washington, D.C. The sessions dealt with COINTELPRO's relationship to hip hop and hip hop culture. Political commentator and former general manager of the Wu Tang Clan, Cedric Muhammad spoke at the sessions as well. An interview with him concerning COINTELPRO and hip hop can be found here
There's a interview with Big Pooh of Little Brother that's a little less conspiratorial here dealing with the idea that rap is the new minstrel show. There are some references to COINTELPRO, but in a much more figurative sense.
DissidentVoice.org is running a five part interview with Churchill. The first two sections are here and
I still do not understand why media in Halifax hasn't cover the story other than running a cursory wire story.
Churchill co-authored the excellent The Cointelpro Papers : Documents From the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States. Earlier this month, Churchill spoke alongside Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur, at the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Briantrusts. The two sessions were part of the annual Congressional Black Caucus Convention in Washington, D.C. The sessions dealt with COINTELPRO's relationship to hip hop and hip hop culture. Political commentator and former general manager of the Wu Tang Clan, Cedric Muhammad spoke at the sessions as well. An interview with him concerning COINTELPRO and hip hop can be found here
the Village Voice wrote a very peculiar piece about how a government informant had infiltrated the management of Wu Tang. And I think in particular Ghostface Killa and Cappadonna. And I thought that the way that they portrayed the (Wu Tang) clan and the way that they tried to connect the group with illegal activity was what I recall from what I was taught by Lieutenant Colonel Fletcher Prowdy, who wrote part of the script for JFK for Oliver Stone and who specialized in Black operations from, I believe, '55 - '64.
There's a interview with Big Pooh of Little Brother that's a little less conspiratorial here dealing with the idea that rap is the new minstrel show. There are some references to COINTELPRO, but in a much more figurative sense.
# posted by Die Brucke @ 1:19 PM 
